With the McRib “Comeback Tour” in full swing this month at McDonald’s restaurants across North America, it’s not a surprise that there’s a dissenting soul or two among the masses (vehement vegetarians?), with one particular McDonald’s Canada employee (boeuf Canadien pur a 100% is our obvious hint to the location of the pic) providing some photographic evidence that the McRib looks, uh, anything like a rib. We know — shocking!

In fact, from the photo seen above, originally posted on someone’s Imgur profile (with the poster professing to be “friends” with an employee who took the snap), we’d say the frozen patties that make up the signature special sandwich look more like industrial housing insulation, but, you know, that’s without the barbecue sauce, right? Besides, we’re not just talking about a piece of meat between two pieces of bread, here; we’re talking about the sandwich famously linked to the price of mass-produced pork and a theory of arbitrage all its own that argues McDonald’s only usually brings the beloved thing back when hog prices are crashing — the graph is rather compelling.

In an email to the Huffington Postbegging for calm, pleading their case, McDonald’s Canada representatives brought things back down to scale, right into the realm of your own freezer, if, you know, your freezer were capable of freezing and holding hundreds of thousands of “reconstructed meat patties”:

“We form the iconic McRib in the shape of traditional ribs. We then flash freeze the patty to seal in flavor and freshness, just like you freeze meat in your own freezer.”

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